Submitting Articles Efficiently
Continuation of Lesson 12 from You Can Make
Money Writing
We continue our look at submitting articles efficiently...
If your tool bar on your browser has an auto-fill feature,
use it. If a form asking for your email, name, or anything else
has fields that are highlighted yellow, you can usually fill
them in with these tools. When I go to directories that require
my name and email address, I just point and click on this button,
and those fields are filled in for me. I use this tool dozens
of times daily, so it saves a lot of typing. The free Google
tool bar has this auto-fill feature, and in a previous lesson
I explained the other reasons you'll want to install it.
Keep you articles neatly organized in files, one for each
website if you have several websites, or in the order you write
them regardless of site, or in the order you want to submit them
- do it however it works best for you. I pre-paste separating
lines into the files to speed things up. I also keep a list of
the article titles at the top of each file, to make them easy
to find.
I used to name my article files so they were grouped together.
For example, the file named "A-EverythingAboutTravel"
has the articles for my site of that name. Starting all the file
names with "A-" means they will be grouped together
and easy to find (files are usually arranged alphabetically).
Note: As mentioned in the last chapter, I now find
it easier to put articles for all sites in one file until there
are 20, and then start another. I paste the appropriate resource
box in place, which I have in another file, making any changes
if necessary.
As the articles are submitted, I or my wife jots down the
number of the article directory. Often directories have technical
problems, and won't take submissions for a day or a month. With
this simple list and tracking system, we can go back later to
submit the article to those that were missed.
It isn't important that you do it the way we do. There are
many ways to do this, but you should be spending more time writing
good articles than struggling with article submission forms.
This is why it is important that you develop some system for
efficient article submission.
Pace Those Submissions
It would probably be most efficient if you wrote for weeks
and then submitted all your articles at once, but there are good
reasons not to do this. I may have alluded to this in another
lesson, but it's worth repeating: spread out those submissions.
Some article directories will announce new articles on their
homepage. This is great. You get immediate exposure to a lot
of readers and potential visitors to your website. If it is an
active directory, you article will stay there for a day or less
before being pushed off by submissions from other authors, but
it's still nice to be there for a while.
Now, consider what happens if you submit twenty articles to
a directory like this - all in one day. All of them will be on
the home page, but they will be competing against each other,
and then they will be off the high-traffic page by the next day.
If you submit one per day, you'll have something there for almost
a month.
That is one good reason to spread out those submissions. But
there is also the matter of search engine optimization. Some
search engine algorithms discount the value of links to a website
if they are all appearing too fast. They just don't believe that
500 new links in a day (that would be 20 articles submitted to
25 directories all at once) is normal. So to get maximum "credit"
for your new links, do no more than an article per day.
That means an article per day for each site you're promoting,
of course. A link to one of your websites has nothing to do with
those going to another. So if you have a batch of articles, you
can safely submit 20 in a week if you want to, as long as no
more than six or seven of them are to any one site.
Even in that case, I would slow it down, though. This is an
intuitive thing in part, but it seems that it is better to put
those articles out there at a rate which you can sustain. In
other words, if you write six at a time, but only every six weeks,
just submit one per week. That way there is a consistent building
of new incoming links to your website, and you won't get stressed
over having nothing to submit for a month.
Now, you may have heard about article submission software,
and it may seem that submitting articles would be more efficient
using these tools, but... That's the topic of the next lesson.
Continues with lesson 13 here... Article
Submission Software
Note: This is part of the book, You Can Make Money
Writing. There are links to all the all the lessons/chapters
on the home page.
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